Euro Leagues: Italy World Cup fallout & Bosnia delight
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Alistair Bruce-Ball is joined by Guillem Balague, Rafa Honigstein and Mina Rzouki who discuss the fallout after Italy fail to qualify for a third World Cup in a row.
Mina gives an insight into why it's not happening for Italy and an issue with developing players in Italy and the type of players they want.
Asmir Begovic, who played for Bosnia in their last and only World Cup in 2014 joins the pod and explains why a smaller nation was able to play with less pressure and how that worked in Bosnia's favour.
Commentator for TVP sport Maciej Iwanski talks Poland as they fail to qualify for a major tournament for the first time since 2016 and have we seen the last of Robert Lewandowski in a Poland shirt?
TIME CODES: 01:22 - Will the World Cup miss Italy? 06:00 - Italian fallout 15:15 - Transition & development issue? 19:15 - Fabio Capello the problem? 23:54 - Bosnia & Asmir Begovic 31:09 - The lack of pressure helped Bosnia? 34:23 - Commentator for TVP sport Maciej Iwanski on Poland
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| 0:43.0 | Welcome to EuroLeaks. |
| 0:44.6 | With me this evening, I have Guillem Ballagay, Raffa Honigstein, and the one panelist |
| 0:50.2 | probably not massively looking forward to the next hour. |
| 0:55.6 | Mina Rizuki, and that is because Mina, I mean, I don't even need to say it to our, |
| 1:00.3 | you know, our EuroLeaks audience, very, very sadly. |
| 1:02.5 | Italy, third World Cup finals in a row, they are not going to be there. |
| 1:07.5 | How have you coped? |
| 1:10.3 | You know, when we signed on to Zoom, |
| 1:12.6 | Raf just kept doing one, two, three with his hands. |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, Ralph. |
| 1:17.6 | And I didn't understand it for a while until I got it. |
| 1:21.6 | So, needless to say, it seems to be a lot of fun for everybody else. |
| 1:32.0 | But can I say that I'm not that surprised? |
| 1:33.0 | Not surprised. |
| 1:34.4 | No, okay. It's not fun. |
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